directs the same commissioners to hold another election for the choice of a Council, a Mayor, a Clerk, and a Treasurer.
The Classification of Municipalities.The organization of a village or community as described above is known as a town and remains classified as such until the population increases to 2000 inhabitants, when it passes to the next higher group of municipal governments and becomes a city of the second class. When the population reaches 15,000, cities of the second class become cities of the first class.
Powers of Municipalities.Each of these three classes is vested with power to enact ordinances to preserve and promote the safety, health, prosperity, order, comfort, convenience, and improve the morals of the community and its inhabitants. Some of the things regulated by cities and towns may be enumerated. They provide for the prevention of nuisances, the regulation of slaughter-houses, the burial of the dead, and filling or draining of lots. They license, regulate, and tax hotels, restaurants, eating houses, billiard rooms, theatres, circuses, shows, auctioneers, pedlers, plumbers, itinerant doctors, bill posters, junk dealers, pawnbrokers, etc. They also provide for the paving, cleaning, and lighting of streets and alleys; for the furnishing of water, light, and sewerage, and for the maintenance of libraries, parks, and playgrounds. And they may enforce a great variety of orders and regulations to promote public health and safety. They may enforce their ordinances and regulations by penalties not exceeding $100 fine and thirty days in jail.
